Policy Measures to Stimulate Bicycle Use in Germany (open access)

Policy Measures to Stimulate Bicycle Use in Germany

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Date: 2009
Creator: Lambrecht, Martin
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications, Executive Summary (open access)

Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications, Executive Summary

Executive summary describing research to evaluate environmental feedback related to climate change. The summary includes a breakdown of the key findings from each chapter of the report, with charts and maps illustrating statistics.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sommerkorn, Martin & Hassol, Susan Joy
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
OECD Environmental Performance Reviews – 2nd Cycle (2001-2009) (open access)

OECD Environmental Performance Reviews – 2nd Cycle (2001-2009)

This report examines Australia’s progress since the previous OECD Environmental Performance Review in 1998 and the extent to which the country is meeting its domestic objectives and international commitments regarding the environment and sustainable development. It also reviews progress in the context of the OECD Environmental Strategy, and compared to the recommendations of the previous OECD review. This book is part of the OECD Environmental Performance Reviews Programme which conducts peer reviews of environmental conditions and progress in each member country. The analyses presented are supported by a broad range of economic and environmental data and lead to recommendations for further environmental and sustainable development progress.
Date: 2009
Creator: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
CYCLOCITY® A Revolutionary Public Transport System Accessible To All (open access)

CYCLOCITY® A Revolutionary Public Transport System Accessible To All

Presentation to the OECD Working Group on Transport.
Date: January 2009
Creator: Mari, Isabelle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Projections of Global Emissions of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases in 2050 (open access)

Projections of Global Emissions of Fluorinated Greenhouse Gases in 2050

This is the result of a German study which underlines once more the urgent need for measures to reduce F-gas emissions. Global emissions of fluorinated greenhouse gases (F-gases) will increase to 4 gigatonnes of CO2 equivalents by 2050 if no political mitigation measures are taken. The contribution of F-gases to global warming is projected to grow from 1.3% (2004) to 7.9% of total direct CO2 emissions.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Gschrey, Barbara; Schwarz, Winfried & Öko-Recherche
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Getting Ready for REDD: Toward an Effective and Equitable Policy on International Forest Carbon (open access)

Getting Ready for REDD: Toward an Effective and Equitable Policy on International Forest Carbon

“Getting Ready for REDD” is one in a series of papers examining in more detail some of the issues raised in the Greenprint,
Date: January 2009
Creator: World Wildlife Fund
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Adaptation that Accelerates Development (open access)

Adaptation that Accelerates Development

This brochure summarizes how the United Nations Development Programme promotes pro-poor and pro-growth adaptation that encourages sustainable economic development and livelihoods in the face of climate change.
Date: December 2009
Creator: United Nations Development Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
American Leadership for the Global Climate Crisis (open access)

American Leadership for the Global Climate Crisis

This paper discusses several key areas where U.S. policy should be reshaped, both domestically and internationally, to ensure we lead the world towards a safe, sustainable future. We should: Establish a price for carbon by adopting an ambitious 2020 emissions reduction target. Make investments and adopt policies to stimulate a green economy. Lead the world toward an effective and equitable global climate agreement Support efforts to stop emissions from deforestation and degradation in developing countries. Contribute to global financing mechanisms for climate mitigation and adaptation in the developing world. Ensure that climate change-related impacts are addressed under the Endangered Species Act. Improve science and information to prepare communities and ecosystems for unavoidable climate change. Build public support for sustained action to fight climate change
Date: January 2009
Creator: WWF (Organization)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector (open access)

Major Tipping Points in the Earth’s Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector

A 2°C rise in temperature from pre-industrial levels has been widely regarded as a tipping point for planet earth. Major Tipping Points in Earth's Climate System and Consequences for the Insurance Sector argues instead that sudden volatile transformations in earth's climate will occur long before this 2°C threshold is reached.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Prof. Lenton, Tim; Footitt, Anthony & Dr. Andrew Dlugolecki, Andlug Consulting
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Mongolia Assessment Report on Climate Change 2009

This report brings together the findings of climate change research in Mongolia to raise awareness of decision makers and the general public so that they can develop appropriate responses to the challenges and threats. The content of the Report includes the following: (i) Observed changes in climate of Mongolia and its future projections; (ii) Potential impacts of climate change on natural and ecological components (ecosystem shifts and landscape changes, permafrost, glacier and snow cover, water resource, natural disaster, desertification, dust and sand storms), and social and economic sectors (animal husbandry, arable farming/agriculture, and forestry) of Mongolia; (iii) Vulnerability and Adaptation to climate change; (iv) Greenhouse gas monitoring and inventories; (v) Greenhouse gas mitigation potentials and options; and (ii) Climate-friendly technology needs.
Date: 2009
Creator: Dagvadorj, D.; Natsagdorj, L.; Dorjpurev, J. & Namkhainyam, B.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Forest Carbon Accounting: Overview & Principles (open access)

Forest Carbon Accounting: Overview & Principles

This report reinforces UNDP's capacity building efforts by presenting the main principles, practices and challenges of carbon accounting in the forestry sector. It highlights the historic, current and future needs for forest carbon accounting; principles and good practice; the process of forest carbon accounting; and existing guidance and toolkits available for forestry carbon accounting.
Date: August 2009
Creator: Watson, Charlene
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
National Cycling Promotion Austrian Masterplan for Cycling and Action Programme klima:aktiv mobil (open access)

National Cycling Promotion Austrian Masterplan for Cycling and Action Programme klima:aktiv mobil

Cycling is an environmentally friendly, economical beneficial and health promoting means of transport, a quick alternative for short trips, space-saving and above all.
Date: 2009
Creator: Thaler, Robert
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improving Market Access for Dryland Commodities in East Africa: Synthesis Report (open access)

Improving Market Access for Dryland Commodities in East Africa: Synthesis Report

The report is based on the findings of a baseline survey carried out in four cross-border sites of global biodiversity significance in East Africa. The survey aimed to establish which dryland commodities might have sufficient market potential to lead to an improvement in livelihoods, while enabling sustainable natural resource development; and to identify processes by which this might be achieved.
Date: October 2009
Creator: Dawson, John
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
G8 Climate Scorecards (open access)

G8 Climate Scorecards

The report concludes with a global cumulative GHG emission cap for the period from 2010 till 2050. It outlines mid-term and long-term cumulative emission allowances for key countries under the three equity approaches and trajectories for these countries to keep global warming below 2 degrees Celsius. The objective of the report is to initiate a constructive debate among and foster long-term commitments of the parties while moving towards a fair, ambitious and binding Copenhagen agreement.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Dr. Höhne, Niklas; Eisbrenner k. Katja; Hagemann, Markus & Moltmann, Sara
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Immediate Action Workgroup: Recommendations to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change (open access)

Immediate Action Workgroup: Recommendations to the Governor's Subcabinet on Climate Change

This report identifies immediate priorities for addressing climate change in Alaska. The report profiles plans for infrastructure in several towns in Alaska which already have losses and significant risks to infrastructure as a result of climate change.
Date: March 2009
Creator: Opheen, Patricia
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Research Needs Work Group: Recommendations on Research Needs Necessary to Implement and Alaska Climate Change Strategy (open access)

Research Needs Work Group: Recommendations on Research Needs Necessary to Implement and Alaska Climate Change Strategy

This report to the Alaska State Sub-Cabinet on Climate Change recommends research strategies for mitigating greenhouse gases and adapting to the impacts of climate change.
Date: June 2009
Creator: Research Needs Work Group
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Third Biennial Report of the Climate Neutral Working Group (open access)

Third Biennial Report of the Climate Neutral Working Group

In accordance with the directives outlined in Executive Order #14-03, this Third Biennial Report of the Climate Neutral Working Group (CNWG) provides an update regarding: The state of the science of responding to climate change; Efforts to meet the goals of the Executive Order; Future planned steps and their anticipated impacts, expected challenges, and opportunities; Opportunities to initiate a statewide voluntary greenhouse gas emissions registry; The feasibility of a carbon emissions cap and trading program. Also summarized within this report are a number of related ongoing efforts within state government that will facilitate an expanded and coordinated campaign to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Recommended actions for continued GHG emissions reductions are presented in this report to be considered for implementation during 2009 – 2010 by Vermont State Government.
Date: July 2009
Creator: Climate Neutral Working Group
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Arctic Climate Feedbacks: Global Implications

Report describing sea-level rise and the associated flooding of coastal regions that may affect more than a quarter of the world’s population. It includes sections on atmospheric and ocean circulation feedbacks, ice sheets and sea-level rise feedbacks, marine and land carbon cycle feedbacks, and methane hydrate feedbacks.
Date: November 2009
Creator: Sommerkorn, Martin
Object Type: Musical Score/Notation
System: The UNT Digital Library
2009 Annual Report of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (open access)

2009 Annual Report of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme

The year 2009 was an eventful period for the Pacific region, with challenges and accomplishments that will be forever etched in our Pacific history.
Date: 2009
Creator: The Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Antarctic Climate Change  in the 20th and 21st centuries: Extracts from the Executive Summary of SCAR’s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) Review Report (open access)

Antarctic Climate Change in the 20th and 21st centuries: Extracts from the Executive Summary of SCAR’s Antarctic Climate Change and the Environment (ACCE) Review Report

The instrumental period began in the Antarctic with the International Geophysical Year, about 50 years ago. The snapshot we have of the climate during this period is tiny in the long history of the continent. Determining how the environment of the Antarctic will evolve over the next century presents challenges. Climate models are the only means we have of providing synoptic views of future environmental behaviour, albeit crudely and at coarse resolution. However, the effects of increased greenhouse gases are already evident, and the effects of their expected increase over the next century, if they continue to rise at the current rate, will be remarkable because of their speed.
Date: October 2010
Creator: WWF (Organization)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Copenhagen Climate Treat Version 1.0 : Legal text A proposal for an amended Kyoto Protocol and a new Copenhagen Protocol (open access)

A Copenhagen Climate Treat Version 1.0 : Legal text A proposal for an amended Kyoto Protocol and a new Copenhagen Protocol

This document contains a draft version of how the agreement in Copenhagen could look like – in legal form. This is very much a work in progress. The purpose of this exercise is two fold : a) to outline to Parties how the agreement could fit together substantively and b) to demonstrate that the two Protocol option is a feasible and desirable outcome for the legal form. Attempts have been made through provisions in both the proposed Copenhagen Protocol and the amendments to the Kyoto Protocol to unify the accounting, reporting and verification of as well as compliance with emission reduction targets for industrialized countries and to create a forum for these bodies (CMCP & CMKP) to jointly develop rules in the future. It is possible that not every T has been crossed or i dotted and further provisions or amendments linking the two may be required.
Date: January 2009
Creator: NGO community
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines and Reduction Potentials from Buildings in South Africa (open access)

Greenhouse Gas Emission Baselines and Reduction Potentials from Buildings in South Africa

The report concludes that the operation of non-residential and residential building sectors account for around 23% of total emissions. Of this, non-residential sector accounts for around 10% of total emissions and the urban and rural high-medium income residential sectors account for around 8%. In addition, it is estimated that the manufacture of building materials accounts for around 5% of total emissions.
Date: 2009
Creator: Milford, Rodney
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0: A Proposal for a Copenhagen Agreement by Members of the NGO Community (open access)

A Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0: A Proposal for a Copenhagen Agreement by Members of the NGO Community

The "Copenhagen Climate Treaty - Version 1.0", which is now distributed to negotiators from 192 states, took some of the world's most experienced climate NGOs almost a year to write and contains a full legal text covering all the main elements needed to provide the world with a fair and ambitious agreement that keeps climate change impacts below the unacceptable risk levels identified by most scientists.
Date: June 2009
Creator: NGO community
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
United Nations Development Programme & Climate Change Adaptation - A Quarterly Update of Activities (open access)

United Nations Development Programme & Climate Change Adaptation - A Quarterly Update of Activities

The newsletter includes updates on projects, performance indicators, impacts and results, and policy and mainstreaming announcements on UNDP's activities around the world in support of climate change adaptation.
Date: December 2009
Creator: United Nations Development Programme
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library